{"id":2574,"date":"2013-09-24T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2013-10-25T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T19:13:09","slug":"review-augusto-bordelois-at-csu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/review-augusto-bordelois-at-csu\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Augusto Bordelois at CSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cuban-born, Cleveland-based artist Augusto Bordelois is showing some striking works at Cleveland State U<\/a>. The exhibition, titled “Based on a True Story,” is filled with large-format paintings full of bold colors and simple shapes that burst their frames and overflow the shallow space, as in the accompanying photo.<\/p>\n

\"Painting<\/a>
Painting by Bordelois<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The designs are strong although simple; shapes and devices are repeated throughout. The figurative paintings are filled with symbolism that never strays from the benign, humorous, and superficial.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

When I walked into the gallery, I was immediately reminded of another artist whom I first encountered in New York in the 80’s. His posters were widely seen in the Village and other tourist haunts. I couldn’t for the life of me remember the artist’s name. Once again Google came to the rescue. Searching for ‘comic figure painters’ produced Botero.<\/p>\n

\"Painting<\/a>
Painting by Botero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Colombian-born Botero<\/a> fills his large canvases to the bursting with simple, repeated shapes that are unfailingly humorous. I suspect his fellow Latin American had a deep influence on Bordelois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cuban-born, Cleveland-based artist Augusto Bordelois is showing some striking works at Cleveland State U. The exhibition, titled “Based on a True Story,” is filled with large-format paintings full of bold colors and simple shapes that burst their frames and overflow the shallow space, as in the accompanying photo. The designs are strong although simple; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10,76,46,1],"tags":[21,8,73],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-cleveland","category-galleries","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","tag-art-review-2","tag-artists-2","tag-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bordelois1.jpg?fit=600%2C465&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3570,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/review-43rd-student-show-the-galleries-at-csu\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":0},"title":"Review: 43rd Student Show The Galleries at CSU","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my second review of a Cleveland State U. student exhibition. Like last year's show, the quality is student-grade but compares well with\u00a0student\u00a0shows at higher profile schools, like the Cleveland Institute of Art. The biggest difference between the two is that students at the\u00a0latter produce\u00a0more formal conceptional pieces. Also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cleveland"","block_context":{"text":"Cleveland","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/cleveland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Abrahim.jpg?fit=400%2C575&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7863,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/review-eyewitness-views\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":1},"title":"Review: Eyewitness Views","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cleveland Museums of Art's Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the best show I've seen at the museum since I started my near-weekly visits six years ago.\u00a0 As good as the show is, however, the theme--artists as eyewitnesses to history--is a stretch.\u00a0 The paintings are souvenirs of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "aesthetics"","block_context":{"text":"aesthetics","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/aesthetics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/canal-6.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/canal-6.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/canal-6.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/canal-6.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11238,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/next-youtube-video-jacob-van-ruisdael\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":2},"title":"Next YouTube video, Jacob van Ruisdael","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"September 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I enjoyed preparing my last video so much, I am charged-up to do another. In my last video about Jan van Goyen, I mentioned his fellow Dutch Golden Ager, van Ruisdael. I've got a lot of material about this artist so I've already started the next video. One benefit of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art history"","block_context":{"text":"Art history","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/landscape-windmill.jpg?fit=998%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/landscape-windmill.jpg?fit=998%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/landscape-windmill.jpg?fit=998%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/landscape-windmill.jpg?fit=998%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7844,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/turpentine-diaries-4-15-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":3},"title":"Turpentine diaries 4\/15\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I saw one of the better shows that I've seen in Cleveland.\u00a0 Global Matrix IV at the Gallery at Cleveland State U\u00a0 contains first-rate prints from contemporary European artists.\u00a0 I plan to review the show later this week after I visit it one more time. Along 4th Street\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cleveland"","block_context":{"text":"Cleveland","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/cleveland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-15.png?fit=800%2C574&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-15.png?fit=800%2C574&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-15.png?fit=800%2C574&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-15.png?fit=800%2C574&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1085,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/thumbs-up-neel-thumbs-up-also-pearlstein\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":4},"title":"Thumbs-up: Neel, Thumbs-up (also): Pearlstein","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"By happenstance or cunning plan, The Cleveland Museum of Art has two large paintings hanging next to each other by artists of whom I am fond-- Alice Neel and Philip Pearlstein. Juxtaposed this way, the relative merits of each can be studied. Except for a long detour in the Picasso\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Museums"","block_context":{"text":"Art Museums","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/art-museum\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Alice Neel's Jackie Curtis and Rita Redd","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/neel.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/neel.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/neel.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1551,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/the-42nd-student-show-at-the-galleries-at-csu\/","url_meta":{"origin":2574,"position":5},"title":"The 42nd Student Show at The Galleries at CSU","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I enjoy student shows and attend them whenever\u00a0I've\u00a0a chance. While most student shows are filled with, well, student-grade work, I almost always find a gem or two. So I\u00a0wasn't\u00a0disappointed when the bill of fare for this exhibition at the Galleries at Cleveland State U. proved to be bog-standard stuff, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Artists"","block_context":{"text":"Artists","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Monument by Danielle Miller","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/miller-monument.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gw6F-Fw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}